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Mastering Real-Time Alerting with ElastAlert2: Detecting DOS Attacks from WAF Logs

Introduction ElastAlert 2 is a simple framework for alerting on anomalies, spikes, and other patterns of interest in data from Elasticsearch and OpenSearch. ElastAlert 2 is a tool for monitoring real-time data in Elasticsearch and alerting on matching patterns. Elastalert accepts this Alert type: Email AWS SES (Amazon Simple Email Service) AWS SNS (Amazon Simple […]

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Streamline and Scale: An In-Depth Look at Azure APIM Caching

Introduction Caching is one of the most effective techniques for improving scalability and performance in APIs. Azure API Management (APIM) applies caching to reduce backend response time, regulate traffic bursts, and reduce latency. It can assist your service to deal with spikes in traffic (such as flash sales or promotional events). To prevent too many […]

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How AI is Reshaping DevOps: The Future of Software Delivery on GCP

The Evolution of DevOps: How AI is Changing Software Delivery Artificial intelligence transforms how software is created, released, and maintained in the tech-driven world of enterprise DevOps today. Companies are in the process of enhancing the automation, efficiency, and reliability of their DevOps processes by leveraging the strong AI and ML tools native to the […]

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The Automation-First Approach: Why Businesses Must Evolve Beyond Traditional CI/CD

Introduction In today’s fast-paced software landscape, automation isn’t just a luxury—it’s a necessity. Organizations need to ship features faster, scale effortlessly, and ensure rock-solid reliability—all without drowning in operational overhead. The solution? A unified, fully automated CI/CD pipeline that does it all. Many organizations struggle with fragmented automation, leading to inefficiencies and deployment risks. According […]

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Optimizing Application Performance with Datadog Continuous Profiler

Introduction Modern applications behave quite differently in production compared to development or testing environments. Outlier requests and accounts, edge cases, configuration changes, security features, and request spikes can make an application behave in unexpected ways. This may lead to poor CPU and memory performance, which can be costly and result in an undesirable end-user experience. […]

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AWS EMR Cost & Performance Optimization: A Business-Centric Approach

Introduction AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is an AWS service for filtering big data using open-source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Trino, Hadoop, Hive, Presto, and many more. It provides a platform to run your applications without thinking much about the management of the underlying infrastructure. AWS EMR is a multipurpose, easy-to-use, highly available, […]

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Mastering AWS Cost Management with QuickSight: A Comprehensive Workflow from Data Export to Dashboard Insights!

Challenges with Existing Cost Explorer AWS Cost Explorer provides resource-based cost insights, but it has a limitation: it only allows viewing cost data for individual resources for the last 14 days. If cost trends need to be analyzed over a longer period and specific resources contributing to cost increases beyond two weeks need to be […]

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13 Must-Know Automation Scripts for DevOps Monitoring & Logging

Introduction Monitoring and logging are crucial for maintaining a reliable system. Whether you’re managing cloud infrastructure, microservices, servers, or CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts provide a strong foundation & play a key role in preventing late-night production issues In this article, we will look at 13 essential automation scripts that every DevOps engineer should know. These […]

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AWS Storage Gateway: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up and Configuring an SMB File Share on EC2

AWS Storage Gateway is a service used to connect your on-site storage systems (for example, servers and data centers) to storage on AWS. This means you can store your data in the cloud but still access and manage it as if it were stored locally on your system. It gives you the advantage of using […]